Minnesota Fats

An octogenarian that goes by the name "Fats"?! How did we miss this one? It's downright embarrassing.

Name
Rudolf Walter Wanderone Jr.
Birthday
January 19, 1913
Age
82
Died on
Monday, January 15th, 1996
Famous
Confirmed
Thursday, January 18th, 1996
Also known as
Minnesota Fats
Tags
billiards, entertainer, pool
Rudolf Walter Wanderone Jr.
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Minnesota Fats was never played in a game.

 
 

 

Guess the Stiff!

This leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, and onetime prime minister of the Black Panthers, left the United States for Africa in 1969, taking the name Kwame Ture. In the late '70s, he moved again and began calling himself Johnny Bravo. Finally, just before his death, he retired to a nursing home in Redondo Beach, and settled on the name Gidget.

(d) November 15th, 1998